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BepiColombo’s second Mercury flyby
A beautiful sequence of 56 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the ESA/JAXA mission on 23 June 2022.
News SciencesJune 27, 2022 -
BepiColombo’s close Venus encounter
A stunning sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury, as the spacecraft made a close approach of Venus on...
News SciencesAugust 12, 2021 -
BepiColombo skims past Venus
The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Venus on 10 August 2021 as the spacecraft passed the planet for a gravity assist manoeuvre.
News SciencesAugust 10, 2021 -
BepiColombo flies by Venus en route to Mercury
The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission has completed the first of two Venus flybys needed to set it on course with the Solar System’s innermost planet, Mercury.
News SciencesOctober 15, 2020 -
BepiColombo’s first glimpse of Venus
The image was taken on 14 October 2020 at 07:25 UTC within 600 000 km of Venus.
News SciencesOctober 15, 2020 -
BepiColombo’s first Venus flyby
The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission is getting ready to fly by Venus. It will make a close approach of the planet on 15 October at 03:58 GMT (05:58 CEST) at a distance of...
News SciencesOctober 7, 2020 -
BepiColombo takes last snaps of Earth en route to...
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its first flyby on 10 April, as the spacecraft came less than 12 700 km from Earth’s surface at 06:25 CEST, steering its trajectory...
News SciencesApril 10, 2020 -
ESA to conduct BepiColombo flyby amid coronavirus...
Controllers at ESA’s mission control centre are preparing on 10 April for a gravity-assist flyby of the European-Japanese Mercury explorer BepiColombo. The manoeuvre, which will...
News SciencesMarch 31, 2020 -
ESA scales down science mission operations amid...
In response to the escalating coronavirus pandemic, ESA has decided to further reduce on-site personnel at its mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
News SciencesMarch 24, 2020 -
A year of space selfies
What does a year in space look like to our Solar System Explorer BepiColombo? With one of its three monitoring cameras it has been capturing views like this of its high-gain...
News SciencesDecember 3, 2019 -
BepiColombo is ready to study Mercury
After 5 months of testing during its long cruise to Mercury, European and Japanese teams concluded that the probe was ready for its mission.
News SciencesApril 23, 2019 -
[REPLAY] Ariane 5 launch - BepiColombo (VA245)
Ariane 5 completes 101st successful launch. The European BepiColombo mission on its way to Mercury. Rendezvous on 5 December 2025!
News, Event Ariane, SciencesOctober 20, 2018 -
Press Release: ASI and CNES sign cooperation...
Enrico Saggese, President of the Italian space agency ASI, and CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall signed a cooperation agreement on experiments for the BepiColombo mission to...
News SciencesNovember 6, 2013 -
Press RElease: French-Japanese space cooperation...
For the annual meeting between CNES and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall met the key figures behind Japan’s space programme—Naoki...
News SciencesOctober 28, 2013 -
Solar System exploration sets its sights on Mars...
CNES’s board of directors has taken another step forward in its Solar System exploration plans with the decision to take part in 2 new missions. The 1st will see Europe’s Bepi-...
News Sciences InstitutionalDecember 7, 2004
